Senior Snowflake Developer

Cognizant

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Work type
On-site
Location
Wilmington, DE
Salary
$130,000–$135,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Snowflake Developer

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SR Snowflake Developer- Onsite The Senior Data Engineer joins the data engineering team to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud-based solutions. This role involves developing ETL/ELT processes to ingest and transform structured and semi-structured data from sources like Oracle, SQL Server, APIs, and cloud object storage. Key responsibilities include developing Snowflake objects such as streams, tasks, and stored procedures, while writing performance-optimized SQL queries. The engineer will implement data-quality controls, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms while managing CI/CD pipelines using Git. Required technical skills include Snowflake, Python, SQL, and experience with formats like JSON, Parquet, and XML. The position focuses on solving complex data processing problems, performing warehouse sizing, and ensuring production stability through rigorous troubleshooting and security best practices like RBAC.

Skills

Snowflake Python SQL ETL/ELT Data Warehousing Git CI/CD Oracle SQL Server REST APIs Pandas JSON Parquet XML Snowpipe RBAC

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake.
  • Build ingestion and transformation processes for data from Oracle, SQL Server, APIs, and cloud storage.
  • Develop and optimize Snowflake objects including databases, schemas, tables, views, streams, and stored procedures.
  • Perform Snowflake performance tuning through query analysis, warehouse sizing, and clustering strategies.
  • Implement data-quality controls including source-to-target validation, reconciliation, and exception handling.
  • Design logging, error handling, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms for production pipelines.
  • Apply Snowflake security concepts including RBAC, roles, privileges, and secure views.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git-based development and deployment practices.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, or related development.
  • Strong hands-on development experience with Snowflake.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, APIs, and pipeline development.
  • Advanced SQL skills including joins, CTEs, window functions, stored procedures, and query optimization.
  • Experience implementing data-quality, reconciliation, monitoring, and exception-handling frameworks.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
  • Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with REST APIs (preferred).

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